A section of Greenland’s ice sheet. Photo: NASA, Joshua Brown, University of VermontWe tend to associate industrial pollution with the modern era, but human civilizations have been contaminating the planet f...

This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is section of the Weather Desk collaboration.The creation of Camp Century, from the outset, was an audacious plan. Beneath the thick ice of Greenland, a scan...

Lots of people you should not know too a great deal about angular momentum—and that is fantastic. But what about determine skaters? Whether they realize the strategy of angular momentum does not issue but they...

After a monster “bomb cyclone” and frigid Arctic blasts that set some new records on the US East Coast, temperatures have been a bit more merciful this week. And that’s setting the stage for some pretty...

Locked away beneath the surface of Mars are vast quantities of water ice. But the properties of that ice—how pure it is, how deep it goes, what shape it takes—remain a mystery to planetary geologists. Those t...